Over 8 years of program coordination and advisement in higher education and public service. Volunteer and advocate for educating Pacific Islander Communities in Utah about important health disparities and issues. Love to read, bike-ride, and playing with my spunky seven-year-old.
• Advise close to 250 students in the Masters in Business Administration, Masters in Business Administration in Technology and Commercialization, and Master’s in Accountancy programs. • Organize student and alumni events, manage and edit class schedules, plan new student orientation, oversee all communications between the business school and students. • Attend recruiting events as well as review and process admissions applications.
Advise current and incoming Honors students. Specializing in College of Social Behavioral Science, College of Social Work, and College of Business students.
Maintain department relations with the honors college.
Coordinate events, information sessions, and presentations.
Advise students majoring in Communication, over 1000 currently declared students.
Update and implement advising procedures, policies, and paper materials.
Oversee department internship course COMM 3610 (about 60-80 students enrolled on average). Create and grade assignments for the course and track student internship hours.
Manage department undergraduate scholarships which includes updating scholarship application, materials, collecting and organizing applications, setting up awards for disbursement, and corresponding with scholarship recipients and honor society awardees.
Office duties as needed: answering phone calls, assisting front desk and faculty members, etc.
Help students understand the major and bachelor degree requirements and become familiar with different offices on campus.
Update and implement advising procedures, policies, and paper materials.
Advocate for tobacco awareness amongst Pacific Islander Communities in Utah. Also educate on health disparities affecting Pacific Islanders and give information on resources in the area.
Oversee social media which includes posting updates and photos of recent events.
Craft monthly newsletters documenting our work in the community that is shared with local legislators and leaders.
Plan a series of outreach events during the year along with other steering committee members.
Update the organization's website content each month.
For the last two years I have organized and planned our Annual 5K event for organization. This entailed overseeing advertising, registration, and other logistics for the event.
